In conclusion: "If we were to predict the results based on typography and design, we would pick McCain and Obama."

Via The Ridger, who's peeved--as am I--by the misplaced apostrophe in the Globe's sidebar heading, "All the Candidate's Logos." (Just one candidate with many logos?) Not only that, but on the "all logos" page there's an extraneous comma: "type designers, Sam Berlow and Cyrus Highsmith..." Does anyone work on the copy desk anymore?

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Is it just my monitor, or is there no blue whatsoever in John McCain's logo? Sure looks black to me. His design creeps me out--too military, sharp-edged, cold and ruthless--and the single star reminds me of the U.S.S.R.

Devon: Yes, that version is black and white, but most of the McCain campaign tchotchkes are in white type reversed on navy blue: https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html.
Agree with you about the military look. But apparently that's what appeals to his fans.

I have to defend my Globe copy editor, who handles the entire Ideas section, where this feature ran. The mistakes are not in the print edition; the headline and caption were retyped by the website staff, who introduced the errors. The good news is, they're probably fixed by now.

As for the logos: I was interested to see that none of them were in italics; not even the "change" candidates went for a forward-leaning font.